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1661
L1
駄
14
DA
pack-horse, poor
quality
strokes
DABApack-horse
DAmonocheap goods
MUDAwaste
Seal () ; late graph (later version of
Shuowen). Has 210 ‘horse’, originally
combined with 56 (‘big’) but later 181
(‘fat’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘stack, pile up’, thus ‘load up a horse’, and
by extension ‘load for a horse; pack-horse’
(Ogawa). Alternatively, Tōdō traces back to a
word in early Chinese meaning ‘move/transport
by pulling’. This word was originally written as
, but when horses were used, it came to be
written either as or ; later came to be
used for ‘camel’, leaving for ‘load a horse;
packhorse’. Pack-horses do not figure prominently
in modern Japanese life, but this graph
is still employed, almost always in words with
a negative connotation, as reflected in ‘poor
quality’. OT1968:1124; TA1965:531.
Mnemonic: FAT PACK-HORSE OF POOR
QUALITY
1662
耐
TAI, taeru
(here meaning ‘hold’), and 1447 (used for
endure, bear
some grammatical function words; originally
L1
9 strokes
pictograph of beard) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘can, able’, thus overall meaning ‘hold
TAIKYŪendurance
up, maintain’, and by extension ‘endure, bear’.
TAIKAfireproof
DJ2009:v2:764; OT1968:286; TA1965:74-9. Suggest
taegataiunbearable
taking as ‘rake’.
Seal ( 耏 ) ; late graph (Shuowen). Entry
heading in Shuowen has 耏 , but also notes
as an alternative form. has 920 ‘hand’
Mnemonic: CAN ONE BEAR TO TAKE UP RAKE
IN HAND?
1663
怠
TAI, okotaru, namakeru
be lazy, neglect
L1
9 strokes
TAIGYŌgo-slow
namakemonoidler
okotarigachineglectful
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 164
‘heart, feelings’, and 183 (‘stand, platform’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘become loose/
slack’, giving ‘the mind is slack’, and hence ‘lazy,
neglectful’. MS1995:v1:504-05; OT1968:365;
KJ1970:665.
Mnemonic: FEEL TOO LAZY TO MOUNT STAND
1664
胎
TAI
womb
L1
9 strokes
TAIJIfetus
JUTAIconception
TAIBANplacenta
Seal . Has 209 ‘flesh, meat’ (here, in the
sense ‘body’), and 183 (‘stand, platform’)
as phonetic with associated sense taken as i]
‘begin’, thus ‘child begins to form inside
mother’, and hence ‘fetus; be pregnant’ (Mizukami,
Tōdō), or ii] ‘indication, sign’, giving
‘sign of (new) body’, i.e. ‘fetus; be pregnant’
(Ogawa). ‘Womb’ is an extended sense. Mizukami
lists a proposed bronze equivalent also.
MS1995:v2:1074-5; TA1965:81; OT1968:819.
Mnemonic: A WOMB IS A SORT OF FLESHY
PLATFORM
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